Birdman is a part-allegorical black comedy that places both worlds of theater arts & cinema in a debate nest, with human complexity, actors' twofold lives plus cinema's variphysiognomy being the eggs incubated by a candid & concrete writing.
With immensely versatile cinematography & staunch acting performances as the propeller wings, Alejandro González Iñárritu steers his pet project with a direction as razor-edged as a claw. This irregularity is a highly creative & uncontaminated art based cinema.
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. When you are an artist who makes living baring his soul on a stage every night, you get sucked in by the darkness and then you have live there. In hell."